Gay Gotham

Contents:

• GAY GOTHAM
• GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE
• GAY GOTHAM REVEALS HOW A CY’S QUEER UNRGROUND CHANGED AMERIN CULTURE
• GAY INTERT
• GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE NEW YORK
• NEW EXHIBN ‘GAY GOTHAM’ CELEBRAT 80 YEARS OF ART AND UNRGROUND LGBTQ CULTURE NEW YORK CY
• GAY GOTHAM AT MM OF THE CY OF NEW YORK
• UNMET PROMIS: GAY GOTHAM AT THE MM OF THE CY OF NEW YORK

GAY GOTHAM

In Depth: Panel Discsn on Photography and Homoerotic Dire. BFA Photography and Vio and the Mm of the Cy of New York prent a panel discsn on how homoerotic photography found s way to New York Cy galleri and mms the 1970s.

Listeng to Gay Gotham. Gay Gotham curators Stephen Vir and Donald Albrecht found a unique way to do that by workg wh actors to perform readgs of the works of Richard Bce Nugent and Merces Asta, featured on d statns the exhibn. Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture explor the queer creative works that sprang up the cy over the 20th century.

GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE

Gay Gotham.

Last month, the Mm of the Cy of New York mounted Gay Gotham, an exhibn that tells the story of New York Cy’s thrivg and fluential queer cultural unrground.

GAY GOTHAM REVEALS HOW A CY’S QUEER UNRGROUND CHANGED AMERIN CULTURE

Enpassg more than eight s of history, Gay Gotham gathers art works, prted matter like novels and newsletters, and other ephemera to reveal how queer artists and queer social works have impacted the cultural landspe of both the cy and Ameri more broadly. Prentg perd-specific maps and documentary photographs, the exhibn lot and draws nnectns between queer ins and the “gayborhoods” they lled home, allowg to ntemplate how past generatns of LGBTQ people rved out a space for the queer culture we take for granted today.

I spoke wh -curator Stephen Vir about Gay Gotham, specifilly why the exhibn foc on the years between 1910 and 1995.

For Vir and -curator Donald Albrecht, there was somethg more powerful explorg the perd when gay culture was ls visible, forced unrground—but still somehow shapg Amerin life.

GAY INTERT

Gay Gotham grounds s sprawlg time range 10 artistic figur: poser Leonard Bernste; artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Gee Platt Lyn, Andy Warhol, Richard Bce Nugent, Harmony Hammond, and Greer Lankton; wrer Merces Asta; ballet imprar Lln Kirste; and dancer-choreographer Bill T.

GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE NEW YORK

Gay Gotham celebrat how much New York’s queer muny was able to acplish durg s most difficult tim—s abily to “transcend opprsn” through artistic llaboratn. The Gay Gotham talog offers an even broar array of artists and cultural producers that touch ntemporary gay life, cludg Mae Wt, whose 1928 Broadway productn of Pleasure Man was raid and ultimately shut down by police for s pictn of drag queens.

NEW EXHIBN ‘GAY GOTHAM’ CELEBRAT 80 YEARS OF ART AND UNRGROUND LGBTQ CULTURE NEW YORK CY

But Gay Gotham is not about ins alone. For example, most of know that the Wt Village has been a safe haven for gays sce the turn of the century—the neighborhood still looms large the queer imagatn as the cradle of gay culture and activism, spe s more recent gentrifitn.

GAY GOTHAM AT MM OF THE CY OF NEW YORK

In the 1920s, the streets offered popular but fotten venu like The Ubangi Club, where famed performer Gladys Bentley “wore male attire and sang nghty show tun, ” as well as 20 other queer venu that, acrdg to the talog wre-up, offered people “the chance to hobnob wh the neighborhood’s lbians and gay men.

” The LGBTQ empire marked out by the hot spots has sce dwdled to a handful of gay-iendly spac, but the power of that moment is still felt the work of the inic artists and cultural figur who experienced —Jam Van Der Zee, Carl Van Vechten, Richard Bce Nugent, and more. One of the most touchg moments the exhibn is a simple vio stallatn that offers a rollg slishow of photographs ntributed by Gay Gotham visors. The stallatn draws spiratn om “The Gallery of Extraordary Portras, ” a 1928 exhibn celebratg terracial, gay, and artistic muni that artist Max Ewg stalled the walk- closet of his stud apartment.

Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture New York will be on display at the Mm of the Cy of New York through Feb. Unverg the lost history of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists New York Cy.

UNMET PROMIS: GAY GOTHAM AT THE MM OF THE CY OF NEW YORK

Gay Gotham brgs to life the untercultural artistic muni that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose radil ias would terme much of morn culture. Category: Social Science - LGBTQ+ Studi - Gay Studi.